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September 5614 Elections see weakened Status Quo

October 5614

Buchu charmingly waving on his way to negotiations

What political analysts expected and continously prognosed throughout the last two years of very limited initiative from the governing VVP-DRP coalition has come true. Buchu has been penalized with a very weak slim margin over his opponent from his junior coalition partner. While he remains in office and now has successfully overcome the challenge of contesting his first election, a new alliance of third-parties apart from the traditional large parties has gotten a lot of seats in parliament eating away at the now very slim two seat majority the governing coalition holds in the Senate; meaning that in the worst case, they might lose a census in parliament due to disease or other uncontrollable circumstances. Nontheless the agenda on which the VVP ran which is 'stability and wisedom through crisis' seemed to at least hold together their core electorate of hosian-democrats and conservative libertarians which still account for the biggest demographic in the nation. Many were looking excitedly on the election behaviour of the newest member republic of the Nation which is the Republic of Himmelshtern. In first place came the local VVP offshoot which is named "Yeudische Volkspartei" with 33% of the vote (YVP; Luth. Yeudi People's Party) closely followed by a party of similar profile named the Yeudi Citizen Party (Yeudische Bürgerpartei/Yeudi Burgerpartij) which has advocated for a more clearly defined place for Himmelshtern and autonomy. In third place lies the Social Democratic Party of the Triad which is a strong performance in a territory they did not expect; which also ties to their overperformance on the national level, they've made gains by leading the new alliance of third-parties simply called "Reform Movement Triad." While they have to recover from Lackmann era persecution of left-wing politics, pundits see them rising even further in the polls after some time of party-structure establishing. There is another odd-one out to mention in the Himmelshtern territory which is the very radical far-right Front of the Homeland (Thuisstaatsfront/Front des Heimatstaates). It advocates for anti-corporate corruption and the establishment of a new Beiteynu with the 'real sons and daughters of Elior' at the helm; they've been cryptic on what that is supposed to mean and according to rumors in the Amudim territories, they've connections to criminal elements of the Triad. The Democratic Republicans seem on the path of implosion in favor of Social Democratic Politics and the Orderfaction is maintaing a disheartening ten percent of the vote having been painted as 'Lackmann-Lackeys' by VVP activists. 

From what we can see now, it seems that the grand coalition of orange-blue will continue to steer the Triad for another five years, aiming to fulfill their promises of stable and continous restructuring of the state with their main point of attention being the budget, a topic that oddly enough seems like unbearably contested within the uneasy alliance of the two traditional rivals. The VVP wants to cut public welfare programs especially pensions which have blown up by prior OF government 'gifts to veterans' and their inability to deal with bloat from Clenonberg social policy. On the other end the DRP wants to mothball the huge navy of the Triad and disconnect the destiny of the Triad from its politically over-relevant arms-sector.